WMZY History1986-The station was put on the air by
Keith
Walker and his wife Catherine Mary Walker.
1987-Jim Patrick moved to Lake County in 1982 after selling his coal
mining companies in eastern Kentucky. He retired for three years before
investing in broadcasting. The station, which is licensed to Wildwood had
its studio in Leesburg The station broadcast 24 hours a day with 1,000
watts of power. It operated under the call letters WMZY in the summer of
1988 because of the station's proposed sale. The letters WHOF
were brought back when the sale was dropped. Patrick's first radio experience
was with two Leesburg partners, Gene Smith and Dr. Larry Lammers,
who owned WHOF-AM 1320.
Patrick bought out his partners in March of 1987 and switched the dial setting
to 640 AM .1988-The station, which is licensed to Wildwood
and had its studio in Leesburg, replaced a middle-of-the-road format with a
religious one. The station
operated under the call letters WMZY in the summer of 1988 pending the
station's proposed sale. The letters WHOF were brought back when the sale
was dropped.